similar to: Hyper-V driver patches

Greg, A few days ago you applied all the outstanding patches for the Hyper-V drivers. With these patches, I have addressed all of the known review comments for the vmbus driver (and a lot of comments/issues in other drivers as well). I am still hoping I can address whatever other issues/comments there might be with the intention to get the vmbus driver out of staging in the current window.

Greg, A few days ago you applied all the outstanding patches for the Hyper-V drivers. With these patches, I have addressed all of the known review comments for the vmbus driver (and a lot of comments/issues in other drivers as well). I am still hoping I can address whatever other issues/comments there might be with the intention to get the vmbus driver out of staging in the current window.

Greg, Recently, you applied a patch-set from me that cleaned a bunch of architectural issues in the vmbus driver. With that patch-set, I think I have addressed all architectural issues that I am aware of. I was wondering if you would have the time to let me know what else would have to be addressed in the vmbus driver, before it could be considered ready for exiting staging. As always your help

Greg, Recently, you applied a patch-set from me that cleaned a bunch of architectural issues in the vmbus driver. With that patch-set, I think I have addressed all architectural issues that I am aware of. I was wondering if you would have the time to let me know what else would have to be addressed in the vmbus driver, before it could be considered ready for exiting staging. As always your help

Greg, The TODO file for Hyper-V drivers has not been updated in a while and does not reflect the current state of these drivers: 1) There are no more checkpatch warnings/errors in this code. One of the TODO work items is "fix remaining checkpatch warnings and errors". 2) With your help, we have fixed all of the issues related to these drivers conforming to the Linux Device Driver

Greg, The TODO file for Hyper-V drivers has not been updated in a while and does not reflect the current state of these drivers: 1) There are no more checkpatch warnings/errors in this code. One of the TODO work items is "fix remaining checkpatch warnings and errors". 2) With your help, we have fixed all of the issues related to these drivers conforming to the Linux Device Driver

I just took a quick look at the vmbus code, and have the following comments: - why is count_hv_channel() even a function? - your .h files need to be consolidated and renamed. You will need a single hyperv.h file for include/linux/ that will contain some of what the vmbus*.h files have in it, but not all. Please merge things together to have: - include/linux/hyperv.h What is

I just took a quick look at the vmbus code, and have the following comments: - why is count_hv_channel() even a function? - your .h files need to be consolidated and renamed. You will need a single hyperv.h file for include/linux/ that will contain some of what the vmbus*.h files have in it, but not all. Please merge things together to have: - include/linux/hyperv.h What is

The vmbus driver dependes on ACPI and PCI subsystems. Change Kconfig to reflect this. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com> --- drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig index 76f0756..5e0c9f6

The vmbus driver dependes on ACPI and PCI subsystems. Change Kconfig to reflect this. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com> --- drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig index 76f0756..5e0c9f6

From: Hank Janssen <hjanssen at microsoft.com> Removed TODO for VMBUS, it mirrors HYPER-V behaviour to closely and does not really share any usable functionality of the Linux kernel facilities. There is not really an easy way to combine functionality. Signed-off-by:Hank Janssen <hjanssen at microsoft.com> Signed-off-by:Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com> ---

From: Hank Janssen <hjanssen at microsoft.com> Removed TODO for VMBUS, it mirrors HYPER-V behaviour to closely and does not really share any usable functionality of the Linux kernel facilities. There is not really an easy way to combine functionality. Signed-off-by:Hank Janssen <hjanssen at microsoft.com> Signed-off-by:Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com> ---

Hyper-V drivers have supported two device abstractions. This patch implements a single device abstraction. This simplifies the code and avoids duplication of state. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen at microsoft.com> --- drivers/staging/hv/blkvsc.c | 17

Hyper-V drivers have supported two device abstractions. This patch implements a single device abstraction. This simplifies the code and avoids duplication of state. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen at microsoft.com> --- drivers/staging/hv/blkvsc.c | 17

Hi all, I'm happy to announce, that after many months of discussions, Microsoft has released their Hyper-V Linux drivers under the GPLv2. Following this message, will be the patches that add the drivers to the drivers/staging/ tree, and a whole bunch of cleanups. It's taken a long road to get here, and I'd like to thank the following people who made this possible: - Steve

Hi all, I'm happy to announce, that after many months of discussions, Microsoft has released their Hyper-V Linux drivers under the GPLv2. Following this message, will be the patches that add the drivers to the drivers/staging/ tree, and a whole bunch of cleanups. It's taken a long road to get here, and I'd like to thank the following people who made this possible: - Steve

From: Hank Janssen <hjanssen at microsoft.com> Addition of new driver for Hyper-V called hv_utils. This driver is intended to support things like KVP, Timesync, Heartbeat etc. This first release has support for graceful shutdown. e.g. Select shutdown from the Hyper-V main admin screen and the Linux VM will do a graceful shutdown. Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen at

From: Hank Janssen <hjanssen at microsoft.com> Addition of new driver for Hyper-V called hv_utils. This driver is intended to support things like KVP, Timesync, Heartbeat etc. This first release has support for graceful shutdown. e.g. Select shutdown from the Hyper-V main admin screen and the Linux VM will do a graceful shutdown. Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen at

Show a modalias file in /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/*/ Add a helper function to print the same content in modalias and uevent. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de> --- drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c @@ -93,6 +93,14 @@ static void

Show a modalias file in /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/*/ Add a helper function to print the same content in modalias and uevent. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de> --- drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c @@ -93,6 +93,14 @@ static void